Improved rail way-rail splice



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JAMES WIXTED, or PORT CARBON, PENNSYLVANIA Letters .Patent No. 83,813,dated November 3, 1868.

IMPROVED RAILWAY-RAIL SPLICE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

-tion ofthe same.

My invention consists of a steel bar, adapted'to the railswhere the'ynearly meet each other, and to a splicing-bar, substantially asdescribed hereaiter, `so\ that the saidsteel bar may afford a durablebearing for the car-Wheels, and'prevent the latter from actinginjmiously on the rails, at andnear the ends of the same. i

In order to enable others skilled in the art to make and apply myinvention, I will now proceed to describe the mode of vcarrying the sameinto effect, reference being had to the 'accompanying drawing, whichforms a part of this speciication, and in which- Figures 1 and 2 aretransverse sections of my improved rail-splice, and

Figure 3, a side view.

The rail, A, is of the ordinary form, having the usual tread a, web b,and lower anges d and d'.

A splicing-bar, Bis fitted to one side of the adjoining rails, part of-the bar bearing against the web b, the upper end of the bar against thebevelled under side of the tread, and the lower end, e, ofthe bar. beingbent to embrace the flange d', as illustrated, in the drawing. v

To the opposite 4side of the adjoining rails is tted a splicing-bar,B,'of different form, excepting that its lower edge is made to embracethe iiange d of the rail, as the bar B embraces the flange d'.

, This splicing-bar B has ribs, f j, bearing against the web of therail,- and its upper edge, where there vis a rib, h, terminates belowthe upper surface of the rails,

thus leaving a space for the introduction of the stee bar D, thehollowed edge of. which is adapted to the rounded flange, i, of thetread, the outer edge being I recessed for the reception of the rib h,of the, splicingbar B'-, upon the. top of whichthe steel bar bears, th(upper edgeofthe latter bar being on a level with or z .trile above thesurface of the tread.

Bolts, E, pass through the two splicing-bars, an! through the -web ofthe two adjoining rails, the boli: being furnished with nuts, onscrewing which tightl not only are the ends of the adjoining railsseeureh conned'between the splicing-bars, and thereby heh bothlaterally, vertically,` and longitudinally in theii proper relativeposition, but the-steel bar D is firmly griped between the rails and thesplicing-bar B.

. Rails are more rapidly worn at the ends, where the) nearly meet eachother, than elsewhere, owing to th car-wheels crossing the necessarilyvacant space be tween the' adjoining rails.

The steel bar. D, however, crosses this space, an( hence affords adurable bearing forv the wheels, fron the detrimental action of whichthe ends of the rail: themselves are relieved.

I claim as my invention, and desire to secure bj Letters Patent- Thesteel bar D, adapted to the rails and to th splicing-bar B',substantially in the manner and for th purpose herein set forth.

' In testimony whereof, I have signed my name t this specification, inthe presence of two subscribin,

witnesses.

JALMES WIXTED.

Witnesses: A

- F. W.l CONRAD,

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